Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Those attending the BrickMagic convention in North Carolina May 7-8 will receive a Siskind/Meno exclusive kit, the P-38 Lighting Mini-Kit. Kits will also be on sale during the public exhibition while supplies last.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

This is probably everywhere by now, but I first saw it this morning on FBTB (it's other places, like the Brothers-Brick, as well). It looks like LEGO accidentally left pictures of an upcoming set, 10221, the Executor. Unless someone is pulling an elaborate late April Fools, this looks like a pretty awesome set.

BTW, I should note that the image no longer seems to be up on LEGO.com. I'm sure that any moment now, lawyers from LEGO are going to start contacting FBTB, the Brothers, etc, asking them to take down these images. Pretty much the same thing that happened with the Maersk train. What they need to understand is this - If I stand naked in front of my living room window, I can't really complain if people see me. If someone breaks into my locked house and sneaks into my bathroom to see me in the shower, well, for one they've got pretty sad lives, for two they are committing a crime. Posting any image on a publicly accessible webpage is the first case. Putting it behind password protection is the second case.

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Our friends at the Brothers Brick are facilitating the Bricks Helping Japan, a series of auctions with the proceeds going to disaster relief. Some of the offerings include 2 Much Caffeine's steampunk military and Starbeanie's Maersk Container Handler.

Saturday, April 02, 2011

The Brickmaster program has been canceled, and so you can't sign up for a new subscription, but apparently those with subscriptions have another set, 20021, MINI Bounty Hunter Gunship. I'm sure most of us won't have the option to get this, unless they offer it in some other form, but you can build your own.

Friday, April 01, 2011

Today's set for review is 4331, Pirate World. As with all Playmo Micro sets, this one has figs both at the standard scale (2 of them) and at the smaller micro scale (12 figures total, grouped in 4 pairs and 4 attached to cannons). In addition, at the micro scale there is a ship, a fort, and the aforementioned cannons. The standard scale figs each are armed (one with a dagger and the other with a pistol). The great thing here is that you could use the micro figs as toys for the standard figs, or else you could put them together to create a forced perspective scene implying distance.